Gallery of Finished Projects

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

Well, I finally did it.  I made 2 things over the winter.  My friend is giving me sewing lessons, and I'm so excited I actually made something wearable!  I'll post in 2 replies, because I still can't ever figure out how to make the pictures smaller.  I just have a feeling that no matter how much someone tries to instruct me on how to do that, it ain't gonna happen!  I just have the hardest time doing anything with the computer.   

This chemise was made from a Bed, Bath, & Beyond tablecloth that was on sale for around $9 or $10.  The bottom has a band of black ribbon, and I glued the "jewels" all around.  Actually, though I wore it to Bristol for the last weekend, it is still a work in progress.  This week, I sewed the same black ribbon around the bottom of the sleeves, and I will glue more "jewels" in the same pattern around the bottom.  The black overdress is really a black velvet dress found at Goodwill.  My friend turned it around back to front, cut the V-neck, and also the front opening and put a fancy frog hook closure at waist level.  This is garb for when it is too hot and I can't stand to wear a bodice.  Every stitch of the gold chemise was sewed by me.  I glued the "jewels" on a gold basket I bought at Goodwill for a couple of dollars.   For whatever it's worth, the first picture, although in photobucket, it shows straight up and down, when I copy and paste, it comes out sideways and extremely w-i-d-e.

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

Here is the jerkin I made for Steve (he's on the right).  That's our son, Matt, on the left.



You can't see it, but there is a line of the same olive color gimp going down the front on each side.  He likes it because it is nice and cool.  We had a killer of a summer at Bristol this year, and I ended up almost never wearing a bodice at all, because I just couldn't take the heat.

[Adriana Rose]

Ohh I love your skirt! You look great in all the pictures, very dashing fellows as well.

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

Ohh I love your skirt! You look great in all the pictures, very dashing fellows as well.

Thank you.  The skirt started life as a strapless sundress bought from Goodwill.  I knew I'd never wear the dress in a million years, so my friend cut the strapless top off of it, and sewed a black band around the waist and put in elastic (you never see the elastic waist under my bodice).  Then she sewed a black band around the bottom to make it long enough, and to separate each panel, she sewed a black ribbon. 

In the black panel on the bottom, the round dots are really gold jingle bells.  I love bells, and these are about golf ball size, though very lightweight.  I pin them from the inside so I can remove them for washing. 

I call this my "happy skirt,"  because I make lots of nice sounds while I'm moving, and it makes me smile.   

[Adriana Rose]

I put the big bells on my son's shoes at faire. I love the sound of them. And that is some really clever upcycling!

[gem]

HUZZAH, LADY RENEE!!!!!

I'm so proud of you! Everything looks smashing!

[Betty Munro]

Lady Renee, I love the recycling!  Good work on your chemise and jerkin!

[Lady Rebecca]

I love the skirt, Lady Renee!

I finally have pictures of the commissioned doublet I was working on two weeks ago, for a cast member at the Norcal Ren Faire. I made the doublet and fishy collar (both out of corduroy), and will also be making him pants this week.

[DonaCatalina]

very nice work.

[Butch]

Fun!  Are those wooden toggles for the closures?

[Anna Iram]

Love all the colors and bells on these last pages.   

Rebecca that looks great. Nice job.

Renee I love it! Really cute.

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

Well done everyone!

Renee!! Huzzah! You are on your way to becoming a Seamstress afterall!!

Goodwill! I am going to have to get out there and look for stuff that will make garb or parts of garb. Salvation Army too the next time I have a Doctor's appointment, which is right acrossed the street.

[Rowan MacD]

 LOVE that skirt Renee! 
  I think I really want to do a motley outfit in the future; such fun!   

[Lady Rebecca]

Fun!  Are those wooden toggles for the closures?

I think they are all plastic. I got three of the packages on clearance at Joanns, and finished it out with two of the regular plastic toggles they sell. I'm not sure if the clearance ones were wood or not, though I'm leaning towards not. I liked the look of them though.

And thank you!

[LadyeA]

these photos are meant for my website which is under construction, but I feel like I've been stitching on my own so long and I would just love to get some opinions now.  Cloak is handwoven gold and scarlet silk brocade.   I am itching to make one in black and silver....sigh..in time...